鼻

音読おんよみ:

訓読くんよみ: はな

画数かくすう: 14 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: Self

Meaning

Nose. Used for the organ of smell and related ideas like scent and congestion.


  • はな — nose
  • 鼻血はなぢ — nosebleed
  • 鼻水はなみず — runny nose
  • 鼻声はなごえ — nasal voice
  • 自慢じまんばなたかい — to be proud (idiom)
  • 鼻孔びこう — nostril
  • 嗅覚きゅうかく — sense of smell

The top part originally depicted a nose; combined with a phonetic element below, it forms , the character for “nose.” It appears in medical and everyday words involving smell, congestion, and breathing.

花粉症かふんしょう鼻水はなみずまりません。
I have hay fever and my nose won’t stop running.

この香水こうすいはなにやさしい かおりです。
This perfume has a gentle scent on the nose.

On-yomi is in compounds like 鼻孔 and 鼻声. Kun-yomi はな is the everyday word “nose.”

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